Pastor Boykin wants the city of Boca Raton to reconsider its new law allowing alcohol sales on Sunday mornings. Click here for news article and video interview clip.

Pastor Mark D. Boykin, Christian Activist and Senior Pastor of Church of All Nations in Boca Raton, Florida, will lead a group of church members and city residents to the Boca Raton City Council meeting on Tuesday, January 12, 2010.  

Pastor Boykin is going to request that the mayor and members of the city council rescind an ordinance that allows the sale of alcohol in Boca Raton on Sundays beginning at 7:00 a.m. 

The Boca Raton City Council on its Regular Meeting of December 7, 2009 voted for a number of proposals, including changing a 46-year law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sundays until 1:00 p.m. and pushing it back to 7:00 a.m.

“First, they vote to purchase a property for $7.5 million without telling anyone the purpose for the building and then they vote to allow the sale of alcohol on Sundays starting at 7:00 AM,” said Pastor Mark D. Boykin.  “I don’t understand their logic," continued Pastor Mark D. Boykin.  “With alcohol related deaths at a staggering rise and the causes related to alcohol abuse, our Boca Raton City Council has once again come down on the wrong side of community interest,” ended Pastor Boykin. 

Because Florida has no state blue law, the Sunday bans are a local issue. West Palm Beach and Lake Worth can’t buy any alcohol between 2:00 a.m. and noon.  Stores in unincorporated Palm Beach County and the City of Delray Beach have been allowed alcohol sales as early as 7:00 a.m.   Pastor Mark D. Boykin and a group of members and city residents will address the Boca Raton City Council on:

TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2010

BOCA RATON CITY HALL

City Council Meeting

6:00 PM

Pastor Mark D. Boykin is asking the Mayor and Members of the City Council to reconsider their vote.  They have an opportunity to do so on their January 12, 2010 meeting before they vote to approve the agenda and minutes of the December 7, 2009 City Council Regular Meeting. 

The ACLU continues to fight for transgender as our laws weaken our family traditions.  The State of Oregon passed a law adding sexual orientation and gender identity/expression to its anti-bullying law, becoming the seventh state to specifically provide protection to Lesbians, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender students.  

One month later, North Carolina became the eighth state to do so, when Governor Beverly Purdue signed that state’s first anti-bullying law.  The Minnesota legislator passed a similar bill, but Governor Tim Pawlenty vetoed it.

The New York Assembly passed LGBT-specific anti-bullying legislation, but the bill died in the Senate.  Bills were also introduced in Arizona, Michigan, Missouri and Virginia.

Bills requiring medically accurate sexuality education were introduced in Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Mississippi and Virginia.  A bill was also introduced in Indiana which would require schools teaching abstinence-only sex education to notify parents and allow them to opt-out.

Bills that would have added transgender protections to existing non-discrimination laws passed the New York Assembly and New Hampshire House, but both bills failed in the Senate of their respective states.  Similar bills were introduced in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maryland.  A bill adding transgender people to the Texas hate crimes law was introduced but never taken up.  

All these bills and laws are being drafted with the help of the ACLU, which is doing everything within its power to weaken our family traditions.